NS Cliches: Rebooted

by **-Astoria-** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:43 pm

Karazicu wrote:
Karazicu wrote:Cliche: "I'll probably get around to finishing this factbook later." last edit: 15 days ago
totally not talking about myself here no

continuing from this:

"You know what, maybe now I'll actually get to work on this factbook."

opens up the editor

proceeds to stare at the thing for multiple hours and only end up making minor changes that barely add any new substance

Plus:

"... mm, this wouldn't do; let's take that out..."

At the end of the day, you end up with less than what you started off with.

by **Meadowfields** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:45 pm

-Astoria- wrote:
Karazicu wrote:continuing from this:

"You know what, maybe now I'll actually get to work on this factbook."

opens up the editor

proceeds to stare at the thing for multiple hours and only end up making minor changes that barely add any new substance

Plus:

"... mm, this wouldn't do; let's take that out..."

At the end of the day, you end up with less than what you started off with.

I've conceptualized at least 20 more political parties for my nation (no questions please I like political parties lol) for the past weeks but never put them in.

by **The Jamesian Republic** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 4:08 pm

Here’s a cliche I guess that I use in my lore: Nations that realistically probably wouldn’t join together to be one country or would last very long as one country. In my lore I have one nation in which a nation corresponding to France’s West African territories unite as one country.

by **Brettenwald** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:53 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Here’s a cliche I guess that I use in my lore: Nations that realistically probably wouldn’t join together to be one country or would last very long as one country. In my lore I have one nation in which a nation corresponding to France’s West African territories unite as one country.

Congratulations, you've just Thanos-snapped Svenska-Britannia out of existence.

by **Broader Confederate States** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:59 pm

The Jamesian Republic wrote:Here’s a cliche I guess that I use in my lore: Nations that realistically probably wouldn’t join together to be one country or would last very long as one country. In my lore I have one nation in which a nation corresponding to France’s West African territories unite as one country.

That's half of NS.

by **Valentine Z** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:02 pm

Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

by **-Astoria-** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:11 pm

Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

Just give them an ability to make food from the sun by themselves à la photosynthesis.

by **Broader Confederate States** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:12 pm

Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

It's pretty easy to forget, honestly! Don't best youeself up too much, but definitely throw farming infrastructure a bone. I need to flesh out my nations more...

by **Valentine Z** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:20 pm

-Astoria- wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

Just give them an ability to make food from the sun by themselves à la photosynthesis.

I make tall people, NOT gentle Hulks. :lol:

by **-Astoria-** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:22 pm

Valentine Z wrote:
-Astoria- wrote:Just give them an ability to make food from the sun by themselves à la photosynthesis.

I make tall people, NOT gentle Hulks.

Why not both?

by **Broader Confederate States** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:23 pm

-Astoria- wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

Just give them an ability to make food from the sun by themselves à la photosynthesis.

Chlorophyllic skin... I'll have to keep that in mind, I've been wondering what I could do to make Anpoaä distinct.

by **Red Lake Circle** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:32 pm

Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

Just yell "HYDROPONICS" at anyone who questions you about it

by **Drongonia** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:19 pm

Karazicu wrote:Cliche: "I'll probably get around to finishing this factbook later." last edit: 15 days ago
totally not talking about myself here no

>15 days ago
Try 15 months ago

by **-Astoria-** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:23 pm

Drongonia wrote:
Karazicu wrote:Cliche: "I'll probably get around to finishing this factbook later." last edit: 15 days ago
totally not talking about myself here no

>15 days ago
Try 15 months ago

Or 1.5 years ago.

by **Frisemark** » Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:38 pm

Karazicu wrote:
Karazicu wrote:Cliche: "I'll probably get around to finishing this factbook later." last edit: 15 days ago
totally not talking about myself here no

continuing from this:

"You know what, maybe now I'll actually get to work on this factbook."

opens up the editor

proceeds to stare at the thing for multiple hours and only end up making minor changes that barely add any new substance

I am being targeted

by **Drongonia** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:03 am

-Astoria- wrote:
Drongonia wrote:>15 days ago
Try 15 months ago

Or 1.5 years ago.

haha... ha...

by **-Astoria-** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:12 am

Drongonia wrote:
-Astoria- wrote:Or 1.5 years ago.

haha... ha...

-Astoria- wrote:
Karazicu wrote:Cliche: "I'll probably get around to finishing this factbook later." last edit: 15 days ago
totally not talking about myself here no

As for me:
Last edited: 1 year 159 days ago

As for actual development:
2 years 61 days ago

by **Gonswanza** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:17 am

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Valentine Z wrote:Me halfway after making a planetary power: Oh shit, we NEED farms to make food!

I mean, it sounds obvious in hindsight, but you know...

Just yell "HYDROPONICS" at anyone who questions you about it

[Laughs in almost completely self sufficient nation using hydroponics]

by **Drongonia** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 2:38 am

Planning factbook refreshes/design updates and never doing them

For reference this was originally called "2021 Refresh" then "2022 Refresh" now perhaps more realistically sports the "2022 - 23" timeline.

It has ONE (1) new textbox in it after about 10 months.

by **-Astoria-** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:55 am

Drongonia wrote:Planning factbook refreshes/design updates and never doing them

For reference this was originally called "2021 Refresh" then "2022 Refresh" now perhaps more realistically sports the "2022 - 23" timeline.
(Image)

It has ONE (1) new textbox in it after about 10 months.

That reminds me; only two of the twelve links on my factbook-as-website actually lead anywhere.

Note that the "copyright" bit in the footer says '2020'.

by **South Reinkalistan** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:38 am

Drongonia wrote:Planning factbook refreshes/design updates and never doing them

For reference this was originally called "2021 Refresh" then "2022 Refresh" now perhaps more realistically sports the "2022 - 23" timeline.
(Image)

It has ONE (1) new textbox in it after about 10 months.

the woes of using real-life website factbooks tbh

by **The Jamesian Republic** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:24 pm

Here’s a cliche using pictures of real people to represent your characters and then procede to run with this and make it painfully obvious by saying it out right even though when you look back on it you cringe to yourself.

by **Gandoor** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:47 pm

What.

(For some reason I just remembered the time someone used a picture of Queen Elizabeth for someone in their nation and someone else was like 'That's not [whoever this nation's character was] that's Queen Elizabeth!!!')

by **Karazicu** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 5:49 pm

So, how about this:

Something that I believe that I've observed when browsing through the forums, most of the time through some of the older posts, I notice that a bunch of nations based around the Balkans tend to almost always be Yugoslavia, or at least some variant of it.

by **Vadterland** » Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:16 pm

Karazicu wrote:So, how about this:

Something that I believe that I've observed when browsing through the forums, most of the time through some of the older posts, I notice that a bunch of nations based around the Balkans tend to almost always be Yugoslavia, or at least some variant of it.

Yeah, Yugo-nostalgia exists. Not going to lie, it's kind of a plague in Western internet circles. But it is very easy to just group together all the South Slavs on a map and call them Yugoslavia in any given alternate-history because fuck going into actual Slavic history beyond Tito apparently.

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